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l Application filed May 29, 1920.

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Be it known that I, JOHN A. HoLMQUis'r, residing at Woodlawn, in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, a citizen of the United States, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Reels, of which improvements the following isa specication.

My invention relates to improvements in reels. In the production for the market of such material as wire, and notably barbed wire for fencing, there is need for a reel which shall be strong, simple, inexpensive, of relatively little "weight, and capable .of being introduced into the machine where its burden is lcoiled upon it. It is advantageous also that such a reel be collapsible, that itmay be stored in quantity in minimum space. It is such a reel which constitutes my present invention. I

In the accompanying drawings Figure I shows the reel in perspective, in position to receive its burden; Fig. II shows in side elevation the same reel when collapsed; Fig. III is a View similar to Fig. I but fragmentary, showing a modification in structural detail. j

The reel of my invention is made of wire and is composed of four pieces, two pairs l'of duplicate parts, properly articulated together.

as the drawings show, to the form of an elongate rectangular loop with its terminal portions 2 deflected into planes at right angles medial 'portion consists .of two parallel reaches; the terminal portions are bends of wire connecting the two reaches which constitute the medial portion.

The other two of the four loops extend, each in substantially a single plane, and may be defined as elongate rectangular loops whose opposite and otherwise parallel sides are bent midway of their length to overlapping bends 3, leaving the ends 4 similar to the terminal portions 2 of they parts first described.

These parts are properly proportioned I one to another and are articulated as best Specicatii of Letters Patent.

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Patented Apr. 26, 1921. Serial No. 385,133. l

Y The structure will be clearly understood l from Fig. I, and the manifest collapsibility is illustrated in Fig. II.

vThe modification shown in Fig. III consists merelyin this, that the lhinge joint at corners a is made` by a com-plete turn of one strand of 4wire around the other.- This is effected by intruding the bend 2 of one of the pairs of loops between the bends 3 of one of the other pairs before the corner twists are completed, and ,then completing the twists.

When assembled the four reaches 1, spaced apart at the corners of an approximate square (in cross-sectional plane), constitute the core of the reel; while the bends 2,'2 and 4, 4, .coming into common planes, constitute the end flanges. The overlapping bends 3 form eyes, and these eyes at opposite ends of the reel, being alined, afford bearing for an arbor of such sort as the user may find convenient to introduce.

I claim as my invention:

l. A reel composed of four endless lengths of wire, two bent into three planes, two extending each in a single plane, the two members last named articulated to the two first named at the bends thereof. j

2. A reel composed of four endless lengths of wire, two bent each into three planes and consisting of a medial portion of parallel .reaches and opposite terminal portions parallel one to another and perpendicular to the medial portion and consisting of bends connecting the medial reaches, the other two endless lengths being bent to the form of elongate rectangles with overlapping bends intermediate their long sides, the two members last named articulating together the two members first named, substantially as described.

3. A reel composed of wire; its core por- Vtion formed of four strands of wire in quadrangulalrelative `positions, and oooh end' In 'estmony whereof I have hereunto set flange of the reel composed of four Wings; my hond.

two opposite Wings of each end enge being formed of a single-length of Wire and the JOHN A. HOLMQUIST. other two opposite Wings being formed of Wire in continuous length with the Wires, Witnesses:

of the core portion, substantially as de- Ta GIRDLER,

scribed. LANSON STONE. 

